Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis [Hardcover]

Foreword: Machado de Assis: the Brazilian Master Then and Now Nelson H. Vieira.-  Introduction: Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva.- Part I: Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy.- 1 Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.- 2  Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.- 3 Machado de Assis and Pascal Pedro Meira Monteiro.- Part II: Machado on Race, Identity, and Society.- 4 Machado de Assis: From Tragic Mulatto to Human Tragicomedy G. Reginald Daniel.- 5 Father Versus Mother: Slavery and its Apparatuses Fernando Rocha.- 6 The Chinese Question in Machados Journalism  Sonia Roncador.- Part III: Women in Machados Work.- 7 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machados Li??o de Bot?nica Earl E. Fitz.- 8 Curiosity: Undecidability and Gender in Dom Casmurro Marta Peixoto.- Part IV: Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations.- 9 Machados Wounded Males Luiz Fernando Valente.- 10 Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro Camilo Gomides.- 11 Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in Dom Casmurro Richard Miskolci.- Part V: Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence.- 12 Machados Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre M. Elizabeth Ginway.- 13 Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature Paulo Moreira.- 14 Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in Father versus Mother Giulia Ricco.